Disintegrate/Dissociate
By: Arielle Twist
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati…
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1. Nature Poem
By: Tommy Pico
3.89
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- queer
2. Electric Arches
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visua… read more
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- poetry
- race
3. She of the Mountains
By: Vivek Shraya , Raymond Biesinger
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award In the beginning, there is no he. There is no she. Two cells make u… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- canada
- lgbt
4. Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America… read more
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5. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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6. Even this Page is White
By: Vivek Shraya
3.67
Format: None pages,
Vivek's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin: its origins, functio… read more
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7. A Place Called No Homeland
By: Kai Cheng Thom
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
This extraordinary poetry collection journeys to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monst… read more
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8. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
By: Joy Harjo
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more
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9. blud
By: Rachel McKibbens
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
McKibbens's blud is a collection of dark, rhythmic poems interested in the ways in which inherited … read more
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10. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
By: Mosab Abu Toha
4.74
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza
11. Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
By: Noor Hindi
4.52
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
What is political poetry? How does history become lived experience? What does it mean to bear witne… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Reporting is an act of violence—poetry one of warmth."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"I want to believe language matters, that words create meaning, that a person can breathe a thing into existence."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
"The homeland is stuck in our teeth. It’s filling our cavities. It rests on our tongues. My God. How we yearn for its olive trees. How it haunts our dreams."-Noor Hindi, Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow.
12. The Tradition
By: Jericho Brown
4.24
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at … read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"The opposite of rape is understanding."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"Nobody in this nation feels safe, and I'm still a reason why."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"There is the happiness you have And the happiness you deserve."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
"We few left who listen to the radio leave Ourselves available to surprise."-Jericho Brown, The Tradition
13. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
14. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
By: Franny Choi
3.99
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- adult
- queer
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
15. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
16. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
17. Rifqa
By: Mohammed El-Kurd
4.66
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Rifqa is Mohammed El-Kurd’s debut collection of poetry, written in the tradition of Ghassan Kanfani… read more
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- poetry
- adult
- nonfiction
"Sing me a song of home break a dish or two throw a stone or two because the screams make me nostalgic: I almost don't fear the sirens."-Mohammed El-Kurd, Rifqa
18. Making Love with the Land: Essays
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.11
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more
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- canada
- lgbt
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays
19. it was never going to be okay
By: jaye simpson
4.35
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- indigenous
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
20. Green Fuse Burning
By: Tiffany Morris
3.88
Format: 107 pages, ebook
The debut novella from the Elgin Award winning author of Elegies of Rotting Stars. After the death … read more
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- adult
- queer
- indigenous
- lgbt
21. This Wound Is a World
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.49
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more
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- poetry
- race
- canada
- lgbt
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World
22. Thunder Song: Essays
By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more
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- lgbt
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
23. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers
By: Jake Skeets
4.24
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men “only touch when they fuck in a backseat.” Its landscap… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- indigenous
- queer lit
- queer
24. The Archive of Alternate Endings
By: Lindsey Drager
4.06
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with ear… read more
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- adult
- queer
- lgbt
"Jacob will think: What is at stake in sharing this story? And Wilhelm will think: What is at stake in leaving this story untold?"-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings
"Though she cannot read, she knows well that what gets committed to the page, what gets translated into the code of letters and locked in the coffin of a book, becomes truth while everything else diss…"-Lindsey Drager, The Archive of Alternate Endings
25. A History of My Brief Body
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.20
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more
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- poetry
- race
- canada
- lgbt
- indigenous
- nonfiction
- queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body
26. Disintegrate/Dissociate
By: Arielle Twist
4.22
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more
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- poetry
- race
- transgender
- canada
- lgbt
- indigenous
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
27. The Weight of the Stars
By: K. Ancrum
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl w… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Fighting for yourself is another way of loving yourself."-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars
"She knew what she lookd like, and she looked like trouble."-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars
"Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated."-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars
"All that I am is a terribly brave small thing, with a terribly brave small life, and a terribly brave love that spans eons."-K. Ancrum, The Weight of the Stars
28. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.18
Format: 120 pages, ebook
Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more
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- queer
- indigenous
- lgbt
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
29. Twenty-Ninth Year
By: Hala Alyan
3.91
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year
30. Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
By: Britteney Black Rose Kapri
4.44
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
A refreshing, unapologetic intervention into ongoing conversations about the line between sexual fr… read more
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- poetry
- race
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"all these poets is my sons. i create space for marginalized youth to counter the narrative being forced upon them."-Britteney Black Rose Kapri, Black Queer Hoe (BreakBeat Poets)
31. The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
From an explosive new literary talent, a searing, moving memoir of family, adolescence and sexualit… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- lgbt
"We're thinking, does life owe us anything. Did we get it wrong? And time is an animal, man. The years. Time is killing us it has us in its teeth."-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"Time is an illusion, say the scientists. It is molecular, it is bendable or liquid, it is soldered metal; or it is droplets of memory. I imagine it looks like mercury, silver and elusive...Burn all t…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
"I am somewhere else now. I am part human, part metaphysics, and I still haven't worked out which parts of me are which. I love this new form. I can feel space traveling through me. I am porous and wo…"-Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir
